Semifinalist Team: Boston University
Proposal Title: OpenGuide: A Scalable Human-Like Guidance System for Visually Impaired Travelers
Proposal Summary: OpenGuide builds upon the team’s previous work in assistive and autonomous navigation technologies through two holistic platforms which the team will develop in Stage II. OpenGuide-Benchmark will develop a large, standardized dataset with expert guidance annotations which can be used to train machine-learning models to provide door-to-car-to-door assistance for a person with visual impairments. OpenGuide-Assist consists of an assistive system interacting with its environment and providing personalized assistance to the user.
